University Of Minnesota President Refuses To Bow To Boycotting Football Players
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Source: Huff Post
12/16/2016 10:33 pm ET
The University of Minnesota president and athletic director on Friday refused to yield to protesting football players, who walked out of practice and threatened to boycott their upcoming bowl game over the suspensions of 10 teammates involved in a campus sexual assault investigation.
Minnesota President Eric W. Kaler and Athletic Director Mark Coyle told players in statements Friday evening their duty to uphold the schools values and protect students was more important than an end-of-season bowl game.
"One of my jobs as President is to put our institutional values at the forefront of all we do and ensure our actions are aligned with those values, Kaler said. This principle is far more important than any football game and the University community as a whole, and it is more important than any single athletic team."
The statement was a response to football team members appearance outside Minnesota athletic facilities Thursday night to pledge that they would not participate in football activities until the suspensions of 10 teammates were reversed. The boycott could include the teams scheduled appearance in the Dec. 27 Holiday Bowl in San Diego. The boycott will remain in effect until due process is followed and the suspensions for all 10 players involved are lifted, Drew Wolitarsky, a senior wide receiver, said as he stood with the entire team.
The Minnesota athletic department suspended the 10 Gopher players Tuesday, amid a school-led investigation into a woman students claim she was sexually assaulted by several men in September, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. The universitys office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action had recommended expulsion for several players and suspensions for others.
The players encounter with the woman occurred after the teams season opener on Sept. 2. She said numerous players sexually assaulted her at an off-campus apartment, according to police reports. The players maintained the sexual encounter was consensual. Four players were initially suspended for violation of team rules. They were reinstated after local prosecutors declined to press charges. Restraining orders that kept five of the players from participating in a Minnesota home game were lifted after the players and the woman reached a settlement. The school, after its own, separate investigation, imposed the indefinite suspensions.
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Evidently, there was what appears to be a gang rape of a woman and suspension of those involved. Now the victim says it was forced and the team members say it was "consensual".. The university stands with the victim. This one is very ugly. Evidently, the last sentence says everything..,The school, after its own, separate investigation, imposed the indefinite suspensions.
Consequently, the school rules in this case, are more important than the so called "settlement." I suspect this kind of activity is illegal at the University of Miinnesota. We will see how this plays out. The football players think they are right, but the University of Minnesota says it's campus rules ...rule..
Some history here as additional info. In the 1920s the University of Chicago had an outstanding football team, but it seems that this activity became more important than anything else. Eventually in the 1930s, the University administration cancelled the football program that involved major competition with other universities. The university withdrew from the conference it was in and that was that. Also, the University of Chicago was/is a private institution. University of Minnesota is a public one, and this is 85 years later.....Here is a short history of that action by the University of Chicago....................This story below is from Wikipedia.........................................It is about "Chicago Maroon Football" as it was known in the 20s and 30s...
:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Maroons_football
The Chicago Maroons football represents the University of Chicago in college football. The Maroons play in NCAA Division III as an independent team. From 1892 to 1939, the Maroons were a major college football power. The University of Chicago was a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and the Maroons were coached by Amos Alonzo Stagg, one of the game's pioneers, for 41 seasons. In 1935, halfback Jay Berwanger became the first recipient of the Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later known as the Heisman Trophy. Nonetheless, in the late 1930s, university president Robert Maynard Hutchins decided that big-time college football and the university's commitment to academics was not a good fit.[2] The University of Chicago abolished its football program in 1939 and withdrew from the Big Ten in 1946. Football returned to the University of Chicago in 1963 in the form of a club team, which was upgraded to varsity status in 1969. The Maroons began competing in Division III in 1973.
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lock em up!
There was a cover up like in a lot of rape victims. "Blame the rape victim"
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"One of my jobs as President is to put our institutional values at the forefront of all we do and ensure our actions are aligned with those values, Kaler said. This principle is far more important than any football game and the University community as a whole, and it is more important than any single athletic team."
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I look at this issue, since I grew up in the state, is how the public institutions have been corrupted by money, let's say from CBS (3 billion in television rights, or whatever it is) etc......this exposure gets families to look at the college and send there young adults, because after all it's about the NAME, when you are flashed on the screen during a pro game with the college or university, and that message is that I came from that program, so if I can make it here you can also
The student(s) is then treated like they are a star to produce a product for that revenue stream, some where they forget what is right and what is wrong, what the word yes means and what the word no means. Whenever someone says no, it means no at any given time.
I believe that college should continue the suspension in fact if need be forfeit the bowl game, this issue is more important than having one's name stamped or engraved on some award, we are all taught what the words yes and no mean, or what's right or wrong.
Maybe its time for the "football players to grow up, because apparently at the time of the act, they had not grown-up.
Because they also don't know the difference between was is an "ACT", or was it done by "DESIGN", and as soon as they figure out what this means they then can look at themselves in the mirror
I could imagine him making a transition into acting someday. Beyond the "acting" that's involved in professional wrestling, I mean. 
